Dorothy Powers

Our world became brighter when we met Dotty the summer of 2002. She and my FIL were the only singles on a trip to Sicicly and they found each other at 75 years of age! We celebrated the joining of our families and seeing the joy and comfort that each of them brought to each other. Dotty's love of life, travel, the world, books, gardening, and so much else will always be an inspiration. She will be sorely missed.

My sincere condolences to the family of Dorothy Koenig Powers Dordal. Dorothy was a "double cousin" to me. Her mother Rose Baur Koenig was sister to my mother, Martha Baur Koenig. Her father, John (Uncle Hans) Koenig was brother to my father, Hermann Koenig. Although Dorothy and her siblings grew up far away in India, our families remained very close in those early years. Dorothy and her brothers and sisters were always welcome at our house in Chicago, especially when they in turn went to the...

Dottie Powers, Mother of my closest friend, modeled a window beyond the Jersey suburbia we shared. As President of the League of Women Voters she wasn't at home the way my Mother of 6 was. She had outside achievements and grew up outside the U.S. I was in awe of her as a child and teenager and this didn't diminish as an adult. Her intelligence and elegance we're only rivalled by her warmth and the respect she gave everyone. When she told me about meeting Erl, she gushed like a young person...

Dear Dotty made everyone she knew feel as if that friendship was special (and it was). She kept a keen sense of humor, a passion for social justice, and compassion for her fellows throughout her whole life. I count myself as very lucky to have spent the time with her that I did. I miss her.

In loving memory of a wonderful person.

She was at once one of the most formidably accomplished and one of the most sym-/empathetic persons I have ever known, and always showed to me and mine, as she did to all I saw her interact with, the greatest of kind consideration. For me, I can say without conditional or subjunctive, her memory most certainly is and will be a blessing.